Richard H. "Dick" Black, the Republican congressional candidate notorious for questioning whether marital rape should be a crime, announced Wednesday that he had dropped out of the running for the Republican nomination in Virginia's 10th district.In an email to a conservative Virginia blog, Black explained that he was dropping his bid in order to remain in the Virginia Senate, which is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. (Virginia's lieutenant governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, can cast the deciding vote in the event of a tie.) Black wrote that he made the decision after meeting with Republican caucus leaders in Richmond.
really or is this covering up the lack of support he might get because of that statement and drop in the women's vote? Va. is turning blue and that makes sense they would realize that the same old "principles" formerly called "values" is no longer playing in a lot of states.
Black's campaign was extremely short-lived and controversial from the start. He filed to runon January 8, just two weeks ago. In that time period, Mother Jones reported on Black'shistory of controversial remarks, including a statement he made in 2002 when the Virginia House,where Black served at the time, was weighing legislation to allow prosecutions in cases of marital rape. Black said: "I don't know how on earth you could validly get a conviction in a husband-wife rape when they're living together, sleeping in the same bed, she's in a nightie and so forth. There's no injury, there's no separation, or anything."Black also deemed emergency contraception, which does not cause abortions, to be "baby pesticide." In the 1990s, to demonstrate why libraries should block pornography on their computers, Black invited a TV reporter to film him using a library terminal to watch violent rape porn—prompting the only complaints Loudoun County librarians had ever received about a library patron viewing pornography.
short and sweet he's to right wing for the right wing. the party of stupid has put themselves in a box and nailed it shut from inside. they have to go buck wild bat crap crazy to win over their base in primary's, that done now they have to 180 and try to shake that etch a sketch and expect voters to give them a clean slate, can't do it the elephant dung is too high and they can't get over it or around it.
